DSL Router Troubles – ZyXEL Prestige and iolBB

Oh! The troubles I’ve seen! Every now and again my DSL router, a ZyXEL Prestige 623R-T1 would pack in and refuse to perform DNS requests. A mail to the ILUG on the matter didn’t help as nobody replied but I think I have come to a round about solution! Use a proxy server and caching name server!
So, I installed Squid and bind. Pointed my browser at Squid, /etc/resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1 and all seems fine!
I had previously noticed the router fail when I had opened a lot of browser tabs (6 web pages? Not much IMO) so I tried again with almost a dozen. Worked first time and because you’re seeing this, it’s still working!
Fingers crossed that it continues to work.

5 replies on “DSL Router Troubles – ZyXEL Prestige and iolBB”

By pure coincidence I spent much of yesterday evening digging around /etc/resolv.conf trying to get a ppp connection to unison – got it eventually after installing KDE and using kppp wizard.
Must dig around the log files to see what kppp is doing differently.
Wish I had broadband.

I had the same problem on dial-up, couldn’t finger out what kppp was doing as it just calls pppd with parameters AFAIK! I’ve actually installed Squid on my desktop machine here at work too – the error messages it displays are friendlier than those from Firefox, even with various plugins installed.

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